{"id":72423,"date":"2012-11-23T11:47:34","date_gmt":"2012-11-23T18:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=72423"},"modified":"2012-11-23T11:47:34","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T18:47:34","slug":"global-rallycross-qa-with-andreas-eriksson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=72423","title":{"rendered":"Global Rallycross &#8211; Q&#038;A with Andreas Eriksson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Andreas Eriksson runs Olsbergs MSE, the Swedish company whose American arm is based in Huntington Beach, Calif., and runs the five front-running Ford Fiestas in Global Rallycross. He&#8217;s also created a proposal for Super Car Lites, a 320hp feeder formula into GRC. And unlike many motorsports people with strong engineering backgrounds, he&#8217;s not afraid to admit that in rallycross, the cars are not necessarily the stars: it&#8217;s about drivers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">RACER: What is the appeal of Global Rallycross, and is it especially important to attract attention while the World Rally Championship is going through traumatic and uncertain times?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racer.com\/insight-global-rallycross-part-2--qa-with-andreas-eriksson\/article\/269482\/\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andreas Eriksson runs Olsbergs MSE, the Swedish company whose American arm is based in Huntington Beach, Calif., and runs the five front-running Ford Fiestas in Global Rallycross. He&#8217;s also created a proposal for Super Car Lites, a 320hp feeder formula into GRC. And unlike many motorsports people with strong engineering backgrounds, he&#8217;s not afraid to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-rally-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72424,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72423\/revisions\/72424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}